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C. The Sub-Humid Belt


The sub-humid belt stretches over the Upper and Middle Ganga Plains and a narrow central belt running from Bundelkhand Andhra Pradesh to Tamil Nadu Plateau and the Eastern Coastal plain. The average annual rainfall in this region varies between 75 cm to 100 cm. The main crops are wheat, rice, sugarcane, gram, maize, millets, cotton, groundnut, oilseeds, and tobacco. It has three mesodivisions and 24 micro-agricultural regions.